About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on building self-worth, improving how people talk about needs, and finding practical ways to handle daily challenges. Her work often addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and mood conditions including bipolar disorder.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas, and she helps clients explore strategies that fit their routines and goals.
Background and approach
Schaefer uses a collaborative, person-centered style. She listens closely, helps clients name what matters to them, and then shapes sessions around those priorities. Conversations tend to be direct and grounded in everyday problems rather than abstract theory.
She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches to help people change unhelpful patterns and notice what is happening in the moment. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy elements are used when people want to clarify values and take meaningful action despite discomfort. Shayna works with adults in Delaware and speaks English and Spanish.
Her long experience includes supporting career transitions, caregiving stress, body image and identity concerns, and complex losses. She aims to make therapy practical and relevant to each person's life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what really matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It’s useful for coping with life changes, anxiety, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills to test and shift patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be helpful for mood, stress, and attention-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shayna will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adapts techniques to what actually fits a person’s routine and checks in about what is and isn’t working so the plan evolves together.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people maintain visual connection when that matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy techniques between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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